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Re: 9.1: boot-time delay? [WORKAROUND FOUND]



On Fri, May 28, 2021 at 03:14:24AM +0700, Robert Elz wrote:
>     Date:        Thu, 27 May 2021 05:05:15 -0000 (UTC)
>     From:        mlelstv%serpens.de@localhost (Michael van Elst)
>     Message-ID:  <s8n9ab$hs1$1%serpens.de@localhost>
> 
>   | mlelstv%serpens.de@localhost (Michael van Elst) writes:
>   |
>   | >Either direction mstohz or hztoms should better always round up to
>   | >guarantee a minimal delay.
>   |
>   | And both should be replaced by hztous()/ustohz().
> 
> While changing ms to us is probably a good idea, when a change happens,
> the "hz" part should be changed too.
> 
> hz is (a unit of) a measure of frequency, ms (or us) is (a unit of) a
> measure of time (duration) - converting one to the other makes no sense.

"hz" in this context comes from HZ - it is used here as dimension of
1s/HZ. Just like "ms" here is used as "1s/1000". It's a pretty sensible
naming compared to much longer naming variants.

Joerg


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